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Signals Fintech Founders: Authentic’s Cole Riccardi

What’s Up everyone. Quick question. How often do you think about insurance? Insurance is one of the largest, oldest industries in the world but simultaneously, it is one of the least innovative. While a whole host of fintech companies have made their mark in payments and banking over the past 20 years, think companies like Stripe, Adyen, Revout, Nubank, Chime, etc. the insurance world has lagged behind.

As embedded fintech has gone from nonexistent, to mainstream, and companies have woken up to the power of distributing financial services through software - insurance feels like the natural next shoe to drop, which is why I am super excited to share today’s interview with Cole Riccardi, the CEO & Founder of Authentic Insurance.

Plaid: Stitching Together the Future of Finance

Hey Fintechers and Fintech newbies 👋🏽 Regular TWIF readers and those who caught my 1st write-up on PayPal a few months back should already know me, but for those who don't, Hello! I'm Jas Shah, a reformed engineer and now fintech product consultant and advisor helping fintechs,

The stablecoin adoption journey: how (and why) fintechs are integrating stablecoins

Slowly, slowly: then all at once – Hemingway’s ‘law of motion’ explains how big changes often unfold. It’s a familiar story in fintech. Consider digital wallets or contactless payments: what began as cautious, incremental adoption eventually reached a tipping point, changing the way many of us pay. In 2024,

Rome wasn’t built in a day

In 2020, I wrote “All Roads Lead to Rome,” where I explored the state of consumer fintech and predicted where things might go. Since then, it feels like everything has changed. We’ve seen regulatory shifts, new and fading players, macroeconomic changes, emergent platforms and technology arise, and ecosystems such

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